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Umbra Offering Satellite Component Hardware To Space Market

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, August 11th, 2025

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Umbra Offering Satellite Component Hardware To Space Market

Solar arrays offered by Umbra. Photo: Umbra

The space technology company Umbra, which operates a constellation of radar imaging satellites, has created a new business unit that will serve as a merchant supplier of flight-proven satellite components to the global space market. Umbra said that the new addition to its business model will strengthen the U.S. space industrial base, offering a market that is currently constrained by “limited qualified suppliers, long lead times and foreign dependencies” with a domestic provider of hardware used in its spacecraft. “With…

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